Reminder and 2AFC tasks provide similar estimates of the difference limen: A reanalysis of data from Lapid, Ulrich, and Rammsayer (2008) and a discussion of Ulrich and Vorberg (2009)

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1155-1178

  García Pérez, Miguel A ^a   Alcalá Quintana, Rocío ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955291507     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.4.1155     Document Type: Article

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